Health minister rejects children’s hospital claims

Leo Varadkar, the health minister, has rejected claims that concerns over the new children’s hospital site are being "swept under the carpet".

Speaking at the design team launch for the long-delayed project, he said suggestions from the Jack and Jill Foundation that “horrifying” problems about the St James’s Hospital site are being ignored, are wide of the mark.

Yesterday, the patient group — which opposes the planned site and wants the facility to be based near the M50 — said it received an anonymous letter from a St James’s Hospital consultant.